Henry Machyn wrote in his diary in 1553:
“The xix day of July was … Mare proclamyd qwene … , [as the] sister of the late kyng Edward the vi and daughter unto the nobull Henry the viii … , and … ther was … song, and … belles ryngyng thrugh London, and bone-fyres, and tabuls in evere strett, and wyne and beer and alle, … and ther was money cast a-way”.
Meantime, Lady Jane Grey, who had acceded to the throne only nine days previously, was imprisoned in the Tower. She was later tried and convicted on a charge of treason on November 13th, 1553, and eventually executed on February 12th, 1554.